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Title: Go Oilers
Post by: canuck750 on April 12, 2017, 08:03:03 PM: Local boxing team is back in the NHL Stanely Cup playoffs for the first time in a decade., series starts tonight with Oilers playing San Jose.
Title: Re: Go Oilers
Post by: Pisano on April 12, 2017, 11:05:23 PM: Congrats for the Oilers but there is something wrong if Hockey is being played when motorcycle season starts. I say that, and I'm Canadian.

Norm F
Title: Re: Go Oilers
Post by: oldbike54 on April 12, 2017, 11:12:31 PM: Quote from: Pisano on April 12, 2017, 11:05:23 PM
Congrats for the Oilers but there is something wrong if Hockey is being played when motorcycle season starts. I say that, and I'm Canadian.

Norm F

Even more jarring is the idea of an NHL team in San Jose :shocked: :laugh:

Dusty
Title: Re: Go Oilers
Post by: ITSec on April 13, 2017, 01:05:38 AM: It would be a whole lot more impressive if they didn't let three quarters of the teams into the playoffs!

Nonetheless, it's good to see a small market team, especially one where I've lived and been a fan, make it. I just get sick when we have year after year without a Canadian team in the Stanley Cup finals.
Title: Re: Go Oilers
Post by: Northern Bill on April 13, 2017, 06:45:09 AM: 3 Canadian teams didn't fare too well last night. Let's hope Toronto and Calgary can right the ship!
Title: Re: Go Oilers
Post by: screamday on April 13, 2017, 07:01:46 AM: Quote from: ITSec on April 13, 2017, 01:05:38 AM
It would be a whole lot more impressive if they didn't let three quarters of the teams into the playoffs!

^^^^^This

Oh and.........Go Blackhawks!
Title: Re: Go Oilers
Post by: Perazzimx14 on April 13, 2017, 07:34:14 AM: Quote from: ITSec on April 13, 2017, 01:05:38 AM
It would be a whole lot more impressive if they didn't let three quarters of the teams into the playoffs!
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Unfortunately this is the case with most professional sports. Just another way to stretch out the season another couple of weeks and fill a couple more venues. We all have the choice to not to feed the machine.
Title: Re: Go Oilers
Post by: oldbike54 on April 13, 2017, 07:48:29 AM: Aren't 90% of all the NHL players actually Canadian ? Doesn't that kinda make every NHL team Canadian ? :laugh:

Dusty

Edit . Oh heck , turns out less than 50% of NHL players are Canadian :shocked: How did that happen ??? You Canucks better get this sorted out , this situation isn't acceptable , like learning that Tony Parker is really French :laugh:

Dusty
Title: Re: Go Oilers
Post by: ITSec on April 13, 2017, 12:44:37 PM: Quote from: Perazzimx14 on April 13, 2017, 07:34:14 AM
Unfortunately this is the case with most professional sports. Just another way to stretch out the season another couple of weeks and fill a couple more venues. We all have the choice to not to feed the machine.

And I have made that choice - haven't attended or even watched a game in years (in any sport). At one point in hockey, there were 80 regular season games and then almost 60 more to win the Cup (if the series went full-length). Not sure what the number works out to now.

Baseball held out the longest before succumbing to this, and is still the sport with the fewest playoff qualifiers out of the regular season. I always loved the classic structure: a National League, and American League, an east and west division for each, and only the top team in the division goes to the playoffs.

And the designated hitter should be outlawed by Constitutional Amendment. :evil: